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All of this is layman with some basic understanding only.

So, on the one hand in our galaxy alone there are between 100 and 400 billion stars (wikipedia), now a lot of those have no planets, but of course a lot have many more than our system does. So at least the same number in planets. There’s a good chance there’s more than one planet capable to supporting life among that number.

In fact as we improve our ability to observe our galaxy we are able to verify more and more viable planets and even a reasonable number that are similar to our own planet.

This means that there’s definitely going to be a reasonable chance that somewhere, life has evolved to similar or beyond our level already.

But, this for sure doesn’t mean there’s any reason to expect visitors. That’s because even if they can travel at the speed of light, it’s still going to be thousands of years for the majority of them to reach us, provided they even choose to come to us. Because, from where they are they wouldn’t be able to make out our radio signals, nor likely any other signs of life. So we’d be one of many “potentially live bearing” planets.

So, just my opinion. I think the chance of life being out there is reasonably high, the chance of actually being visited (assuming it holds true that we cannot travel faster than light) is probably very very low.

Sir, this isn’t a Twitch.

This one threw me off. I’d muted discord by mistake. Weirdly voice still works. I spent ages checking and double checking settings to see why I wasn’t getting notification sounds and the ptt sound. Dismissing any mute possibility because voice was working.

When I found it was this…

These days with UEFI it’s much less likely to break things. Worse case though you just boot from a LIVE USB boot, chroot in and rerun grub/your bootloader installer. Often even if windows puts its own bootloader first, you can choose your bootloader from the bios boot menu and just rerun the bootloader installer.

It used to be a lot worse.

This is actually a very big difference with the USA and the UK (and possibly most of Europe, not sure though). We generally store eggs outside of the fridge. On a shelf or in a pantry/cupboard for example.

I said elsewhere, I hope this is just some way to track changes over time per user.

But they need to take an anonymous hash of some non changing data or create an install id that is used for this and nothing else (e.g it identifies a unique user but not the person or hardware behind the user).

Too much identifying info is just pushed around like we shouldn’t care, it’s become a real problem.

The way I read it, the developer wanted opt-out but it’s likely it will be opt-in. I’m find with opt-in and vehemently against opt-out for telemetry.

I would prefer the information was statistical only. Rather than hostname (making the assumption they only want hostname to be able to somehow separate the data to follow changes over time), a much better idea would be some kind of hash based on information unlikely to change, but enough information that it would be unlikely possible to brute-force the original data out of the hash. So all they know is, this data came from the same machine, but cannot ID the machine. Maybe some kind of unique but otherwise untrackable unique ID is created at install time and ONLY used for this purpose and no other.

Yeah, my only concern here was if it was opt-out. That’d be bad.

Now I completely understand the developer on this. This is useful info to have to help decide future changes/features and general direction, but balancing the right to privacy means this kind of data provision should ALWAYS be opt-in. Microsoft, you hearing me here?

I think it had its uses in the past, specifically if it had the memory backup to prevent full array rebuilds and cached data loss on power failure.

Also at the height of raid controller use (I would say 90s and 2000s) there probably was some compute savings by shifting the work to a dedicated controller.

In modern day, completely agree.

I’m sure I’ve seen paid software that will detect and read data from several popular hardware controllers. Maybe there’s something free that can do the same.

For the future, I’d say that with modern copy on write filesystems, so long as you don’t mind the long rebuild on power failures, software raid is fine for most people.

I found this, which seems to be someone trying to do something similar with a drive array built with an Intel raid controller

https://blog.bramp.net/post/2021/09/12/recovering-a-raid-5-intel-storage-matrix-on-linux-without-the-hardware/

Note, they are using drive images, you should be too.

The OP made clear it was a controller failure or entire system (I read hardware here) failure. Which does complicate things somewhat.

Yeah, I was going to say. Not pension, but I put money into two different blended portfolios (I didn’t choose the contents, just the two choices from a list). I started it in Feb 2021 and the overall gain has been over 35%. I have no idea what the pension fund put their money into there, but it seems like some bad choices.

OP should check the options they have.

Yes, came to say the same. It’s very easy to get a voip number in most countries. But many places that want to use it for ID purposes (finance etc including paypal) will know the voip allocations and block them.

I would very much agree here. I’ve (admittedly mostly server side) been using linux for around 30 years now. But I’m still dual booting on my desktop. There’s just a few things that will still only work in Linux, and also if I break things I can go to windows if I need to do something “right now”

Dual boot gives you the option of, if you have the time trying to make something work in linux. But, if you don’t have the time, just boot to windows and do it.

How I do things, is I have drives that are shared between both OS (I use btrfs since there is a windows driver and, so far (around 3 years) I’ve had no corruption problems. But you can share ntfs too and a boot drive for both. But, it’s not a requirement.

Also yes, it is quite easy to break a linux install. It’s not really because Linux is bad. It’s just because you have so much choice in which drivers to use, which desktop environment (and even the components that make it up) that it’s easy to accidentally select some combination that doesn’t work and you end up with only a console to fix things from.

I like that the OP is choosing Mint. I’ve not used Mint, but from all I’ve seen it looks a real good option for someone starting into Linux from no experience.

/mnt/shared/Development or E:\Development depending on which operating system is running.

Not in home mainly because I use the same directory in windows and Linux.

I recently made a new linux install (to replace my constantly breaking, likely due to my own doing Manjaro install). I went with Cinnamon initially, but in order to try out Wayland, I moved to KDE plasma.

I’m on NVidia, with two different resolution screens. Which causes occasional problems. But overall it’s fine.

I’m probably a bit further to the right than most on the fediverse with this opinion but…

I think, once you have been informed of someone’s pronouns, it’s flat out rude to not use them. I don’t know if it’s a banning issue but that’s for the moderators on your instance to decide or the instance the community is on. Even if you don’t agree with someone’s lifestyle, it’s just polite to address people the way they’d like to be addressed.

But surely there’s a difference between intentional misuse and accidental. I think banning someone for not looking up someone’s pronouns before a public interaction seems like pushing things a bit far here. I certainly am not checking such things. But, then in general when online I will use gender neutral wording because frankly, for online interactions someone’s rarely information that matters for the interaction. I don’t really need to know.

My view is, I think it is almost always clear when someone is being malicious and thus transphobic and when someone makes an honest mistake/did not know better. We, as a whole, really should be differentiating between obviously malicious and non-malicious cases.

Just post that you think it’d be impossible to port to rust and linux. Then someone is bound to do it :P

For me, there’s just been less posted that I feel I have something to say on. If I see something about programming, networking or tech that I have (probably) some useful info to contribute I will do so. Likewise if there’s a general subject I have anecdotal points to make, or I’m just genuinely interested I will comment too.

But otherwise, I just read and move on. There’s been a lot more read and move on lately. Maybe because of the upcoming US election for which by and large beyond the fact I don’t want the orange shitgibbon (As a fan of the west wing, I like that the spelling checker suggested shibboleth to correct this “typo”) to win, I don’t have much interest. Mostly because I’m not from the US.

My first ever international business trip (in the late 90s) was to Skovde, and that was for software development reasons. So the town has a long history for it.

It’s a nice place too with very nice people.